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enB+C|A Guest Lecture: Passive House, Resilient by Design https://architecture.barnard.edu/events/bca-guest-lecture-passive-house-resilient-design
<div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Thursday, November 10th, 2016</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">5:15 PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">501 The Diana center</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-66" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">architecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>B+C | A invites all faculty, staff, and students to attend a guest lecture by Andreas Benzing on Passive House construction.<br />
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-11-10T17:15:00-05:00">Nov 10 2016 - 5:15pm</span></div></div></div>Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:51:06 +0000rgarciag70146 at https://barnard.eduBook Launch for See Yourself X: Human Futures Expandedhttps://architecture.barnard.edu/events/book-launch-see-yourself-x-human-futures-expanded
<div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Wednesday, October 26, 2016</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6:00 PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The McCagg Gallery, The Diana Center</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-13" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">reception</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-66" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">architecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>All students, TAs, staff, and faculty are invited to come celebrate the publication of B+C|A Professor Madeline Schwartzman's new book <em>See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded</em>.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-10-26T18:00:00-04:00">Oct 26 2016 - 6:00pm</span></div></div></div>Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:35:44 +0000rgarciag70086 at https://barnard.eduB+C|A Talk: Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016https://architecture.barnard.edu/events/bca-talk-oslo-architecture-triennale-2016
<div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Monday, October 17, 2016</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">4:30 PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">504 The Diana Center</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-66" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">architecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The Barnard + Columbia Architecture Department invites all faculty, staff, and students to attend a talk by current and former B+C|A Professors Ignacio G. Galán, Kadambari Baxi, and Leah Meisterlin, who will will present their research and contributions to the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale: After Belonging: A Triennale In Residence, On Residence and the Ways We Stay in Transit.</p>
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<h4>Professor David Weiman</h4>
<p><em>Faculty Director of the Empirical Reasoning Center</em></p>
<p>Barnard’s Empirical Reasoning Center, located in the new teaching and learning center, “ensures that our students will graduate with an increasingly vital literacy, enabling them to navigate a world awash in data.”</p>
<h4>Francesca Sisk ’16</h4>
<p>Getting support from the College’s Joyce Kosh Kaiser ’57 Internship Fund in the Arts last summer “meant I could focus on my internship [at the Philadelphia Museum of Art] and not stress about finding a paying job to supplement it.”</p>
<h4>Daphne Philipson ’69</h4>
<p>“I’m extremely involved with social and political issues relating to women—a direct result of my Barnard education. Barnard gave me the gumption to get emotionally, intellectually, and financially engaged with the world.”</p>
<h4>Professor Brian Morton</h4>
<p><em>Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences</em></p>
<p>“Faculty across different departments at Barnard often work together on important initiatives. There is a spirit of collaboration at the College that I value.”</p>
<h4>Mariany Polanco ’13</h4>
<p>“Barnard opened my eyes to everything that was possible. It changed my life.”</p>
<h4>Professor Kimberley Johnson</h4>
<p><em>Director of the Urban Studies Program</em></p>
<p>“Having an endowed chair allows you to think bigger, to be more ambitious with your research goals and in terms of projects you can do.”</p>
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<p>Mariany Polanco ’13 was born and raised in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood, a few miles from Barnard’s campus. She wanted to attend Barnard but knew her parents, who emigrated from the Dominican Republic, could not afford to send her to college. “If Barnard had not given me a full ride, I would not have attended,” she says. But even more critical than the funding she received was the support of professors who “didn’t give up on me,” she says. “Because they invested so much time in me, I could never let them down.”</p>
<p>Wendy Schor-Haim, the associate director of the Writing Program, “helped me revise my essays 100 times,” Polanco recalls. “She would meet me in office hours or after hours. She was so dedicated to ensuring I was successful.”</p>
<p>Polanco, the first in her family to graduate from college, has worked at Goldman Sachs since 2013, in the human capital management division. “Barnard opened my eyes to everything that was possible,” she says. “It changed my life.”</p>
<p>Financial aid and close interaction with faculty are two of the cornerstones of Barnard’s mission. The College is committed to meeting 100 percent of qualified students’ financial need, and half of Barnard students receive some form of financial aid. But exactly how much students will need each year fluctuates. Financial aid represents the greatest area of unpredictability in the College’s finances, for as the need for scholarships increases, other areas of the budget suffer to bridge the gap.</p>
<p>Strengthening the College’s ability to provide financial aid is one of the chief objectives of <em><a href="http://theboldstandard.barnard.edu" target="_blank"> The Bold Standard: A Campaign for Barnard</a></em>, the College’s most ambitious fundraising endeavor in its 126-year history, launched in May and announced at Barnard’s Annual Gala. The campaign’s financial goal is to raise a total of $400 million to address the College’s three priorities: growing the endowment, building a new teaching and learning center, and expanding annual giving. The College has already raised a record $265 million toward this goal during the so-called quiet phase of the campaign, which began in July 2012.</p>
<p>“It’s no secret that Barnard is rich in scholarship, intellect, and academic opportunity,” says President Debora Spar. “But it’s also a known fact that Barnard has never been a wealthy institution. We were founded on an idea—that women deserved equal education and opportunity—rather than on a large financial endowment. And over the College’s 126 years we have actively welcomed immigrants and students who were the first in their families to attend college, opening our gates to all those who deserved to be here.” The College’s endowment, in fact, is only a quarter of those at some of our notable peer institutions. “Quite literally, we ‘punch above our weight,’ doing so much with so little,” says Spar. “But the time has come to change that.” The campaign’s three priorities are:</p>
<h3>1. Growing the endowment</h3>
<p>At $276 million, the current endowment generates an annual income that offsets only six percent of the College’s operating budget, leading the College to rely heavily on tuition revenue. “The endowment benefits every part of the academic experience,” says Kim F. Hall, Lucyle Hook Chair and Professor of English and Africana Studies. Having a strong endowment bolsters student financial aid, attracts and supports the world’s best faculty, and grows programmatic initiatives.</p>
<p>“There are many reasons for giving to Barnard and for growing the endowment,” says Lois Champy ’67, a trustee and a longtime financial supporter of the College. “For my husband Jim and me, a wonderful attribute of Barnard is that it has continued to be able to attract the best students regardless of need, through a generous scholarship program that we continue to support.” </p>
<p>Currently, Barnard is able to draw on the endowment to meet only 17 percent of its financial aid commitment. Increasing endowed funds for financial aid by $100 million would enable the College to rely on income from endowed funds to support 30 percent of its annual financial aid commitment. Scholarships help students like Francesca Sisk ’16, who was thrilled to receive the Mary Gordon ’71 Scholarship for Studies in Literature. Gordon, an acclaimed novelist who is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Writing, also served as Sisk’s adviser for her thesis on author Jean Stafford.</p>
<p>“It was unbelievable to work with someone so well regarded in the literary world,” Sisk says. “The particular insight that a professor who is also a writer can bring to a discussion is unparalleled.”</p>
<p>Sisk also benefitted from the Joyce Kosh Kaiser ’57 Internship Fund in the Arts, which enabled her to spend last summer working at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She did research on exhibitions and gave tours for youngsters, which were a “delightful challenge,” she says. “The stipend meant I could focus on my internship and not stress about finding a paying job to supplement it.”</p>
<p>Endowment funds also allow the College to recruit top faculty and to support their research, their work with students, and their innovations in the classroom and the lab. Endowed professorships, one of the highest honors the College can bestow on a faculty member, provide support to those “whose scholarship is addressing significant questions and is on the forefront of research,” says David Weiman, the Alena Wels Hirschorn ’58 Professor of Economics. Holding an endowed chair gives a professor “the leeway to be able to engage more frequently in the public realm of discussion on critical policy questions. The professors really are public intellectuals.” So far, the College has raised funds to endow 11 chairs during the quiet phase of the campaign.</p>
<p>Kimberley Johnson, who is a professor of political science and urban studies, was recently appointed to a named chair. “Having an endowed chair allows you to think bigger, to be more ambitious with your research goals and in terms of projects you can do,” Johnson says.</p>
<p>She is currently working on a book, <em> Chocolate Cities: Oakland, Newark, and the Future of Metropolitan America </em> , that explores demographic shifts in inner cities and traces the impact of these shifts on local and national politics. The research support she received through the Tow Distinguished Professorship for Scholarship and Practitioners has allowed her to schedule additional trips to California, where she visits archives and conducts interviews.</p>
<p>Johnson, who is director of the Urban Studies Program, is also planning to hold a community workshop with residents of East Palo Alto about their city, which will expand her scholarly work into community engagement. Funding from Barnard has allowed her to pursue offshoots of her research that are “really interesting but don’t necessarily fall into boundaries, but I think will be important. That couldn’t be done without having this kind of freedom.”</p>
<h3>2. Raising funds for the new teaching and learning center</h3>
<p>An inspiring, interdisciplinary space that will become the College’s academic and intellectual hub, this 128,000-square-foot building will stand at the heart of campus. The center, to open in 2018, will have modern technologies and interactive learning spaces. The College has already received the three largest gifts in its 126-year history for the center, totaling $70 million, from three prominent New York families who are longtime Barnard supporters: Cheryl Glicker Milstein ’82 and Philip Milstein; the Tow Foundation on behalf of Leonard Tow and daughter Emily Tow Jackson ’88; and Diana T. Vagelos ’55 and P. Roy Vagelos.</p>
<p>In addition to a new kind of library with collections supporting a liberal arts education, the building will have a computational science center that will help students with scientific, mathematical, and computational skills. Brian Morton, chair of the department of biological sciences, who will use the center in his teaching and research, says digital competency is “a skill that’s essential in the world today in any number of fields. In the last five years, I’ve noticed a tremendous increase in the number of students who want these skills.” The center will offer a central location where classes can be held—to integrate research skills into the curriculum—and where students can drop in for one-on-one assistance.</p>
<p>Relocating to the new building will be the Empirical Reasoning Center, which provides students with assistance in visualizing, organizing, and analyzing data. “Students need the skills to understand, evaluate, and interpret this kind of information, and unfortunately many do not acquire them, especially in their first two years,” says Weiman, the faculty director for the center. “We need to make sure that’s not the case.” The center has already helped more than 900 students use software to create maps, study spatial patterns, produce graphical analyses, and wrestle with data in other ways.</p>
<h3>3. Expanding Annual Giving</h3>
<p>Annual giving supports many areas of the College, including financial aid, student travel and internships, scholarly research, career development programs, a vibrant campus life, and faculty-student research collaborations. It also helps cover many of the College’s everyday needs, such as building maintenance.</p>
<p>Daphne Philipson ’69 believes supporting Annual Giving is the best way to assist Barnard. “I want my funds to go toward the College’s greatest current need. A new paint job for a residence hall, maintaining the equipment in a science lab—these are daily ‘checking account’ expenses, and I like the feeling that I’m helping Barnard meet them.”</p>
<p>In whatever way alumnae choose to support the College, their contributions assist faculty, staff, and students to strengthen a school where innovation is paramount, where professors engage in groundbreaking scholarship, and where students receive all the financial assistance they need to make coming to Barnard a reality.</p>
<p>“It’s important for the campaign to have the full participation of all alumnae to reach our goals,” says Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald ’81, chair of Barnard’s board of trustees. “For all who take pride in the education they, their daughters, or other family members received, this is the moment to invest in Barnard.”</p>
<p>Jareline Guerrero ’15 was able to attend Barnard because of the scholarships she received from the College. She now teaches at a charter school in Newark, N.J., where she is helping to inspire a new generation of young, striving students. “My acceptance to Barnard is one of the proudest moments of my life,” she says. “And I think intelligent, hopeful, hard-working women who did not choose their economic status deserve to feel that kind of validation.”</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 20 May 2016 15:30:52 +0000rdouglas65961 at https://barnard.eduRomare Bearden Foundationhttps://barnard.edu/news/romare-bearden-foundation
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<h3>Romare Bearden Foundation</h3>
<p>Artist Romare Bearden was born in North Carolina in 1911, but as a young boy he moved to Harlem, which became the subject of much of his most riveting work. Its streets captivated him, and his brightly colored collages vividly capture the buzz and chaos of city life. The class “Romare Bearden: Home is Harlem” was taught in partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem—which Bearden played a role in helped to establish—and the Romare Bearden Foundation. The course emphasized Bearden’s artwork, his published articles and interviews, and the work of those that influenced him. Diedra Harris-Kelley, who is co-director of the foundation, taught the class, bringing students rare catalogs, books, and videos from the foundation, whose archives are currently not open to the public. The class explored “how Harlem shaped the artist’s thinking,” she says.</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 20 May 2016 14:28:11 +0000rdouglas65836 at https://barnard.eduThe Studio Museum in Harlem https://barnard.edu/news/studio-museum-harlem
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<p>In 2001, an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem called “Freestyle” helped usher into the limelight a new generation of artists whose approaches to art making “challenged the art world and questioned conventional thinking about art made by artists of color,” says Leslie Hewitt, an assistant professor of professional practice in the visual arts concentration. Students in her class, “Freestyle and Displacement in Contemporary Art Practices,” explored their own subjectivities in ways that intersected with the concepts examined by the artists in the “Freestyle” exhibition, along with their contemporaries. The students met with some of the museum’s former artists-in-residence, art historians, and curators. The museum, founded in 1968, was created by a diverse group of artists, community activists, and philanthropists to support practicing artists and provide arts education.</p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 19 May 2016 21:45:52 +0000rdouglas65831 at https://barnard.eduNational Black Theatre https://barnard.edu/news/national-black-theatre
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<p>National Black Theatre, one of the oldest black theatres in the country, hosted two courses. A class on art, activism, and social justice during the Harlem Renaissance, taught by English professor Monica Miller, examined formal and informal theatre—from a 1917 “Silent Protest” parade along Fifth Avenue organized by W.E.B. Du Bois to the National Black Theatre’s production of <em>Blood</em> <em>at</em> <em>the</em> <em>Root</em>. In the second class, architecture students created proposals for a mixed-use facility for the theatre, which is considering a renovation and expansion, says adjunct assistant professor Irina Verona. The project prompted Joud Al Shdaifat ’17 to explore ways of “linking social, political, historical, and religious aspects of Harlem with the architectural concept of the design.”</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 10 May 2016 20:12:44 +0000rdouglas65591 at https://barnard.eduA Harlem Collaborationhttps://barnard.edu/harlem-collaboration
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</script><p><a href="https://barnard.edu/profiles/tina-campt">Professor Tina Campt </a>doesn’t have to look far for inspiration. The neighborhood of Harlem, right in Barnard’s front yard, has always played an important part in the curriculum of the Africana studies department, where Campt has taught since 2010 and which she has led since 2011. Now, Harlem is once again providing a rich resource for learning through a new series of academic courses. </p>
<p>The Harlem Semester offers students an academic immersion in Harlem in partnership with the institutions and people that have made the neighborhood a thriving political and cultural center for the African diaspora. This spring, six courses were taught in conjunction with—and for several sessions on the site of—five venerated Harlem arts and cultural institutions: Harlem Stage, the National Black Theatre, the Romare Bearden Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. The initiative was organized by Africana studies and the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where Campt has been director since 2014.</p>
<p>More than 120 students took the courses, which will expand next year to include another Harlem giant: the Apollo Theater. Arts spaces have been central to Harlem’s history, enabling it to become a place that is unique to the African American identity.</p>
<p>“The courses that comprise the Harlem semester celebrate where we are in New York City and the unique connections between Barnard and Harlem,” says <a href="https://barnard.edu/provost/office-of-the-provost/the-provost">Linda Bell</a>, provost and dean of the faculty. “Beyond that, they are about place-based learning outside of the four walls of the classroom.”</p>
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<p>The initiative unites site-specific learning with a collaborative approach to teaching. Experts at the partner institutions—curators, archivists, artists, and administrators—co-taught the classes, engaging students in discussions of the history of the institutions and their contributions to the cultural landscape. The students made use of rare archival materials and had behind-the-scenes access to museums, theatres, and art collections. They went on themed walking tours designed for each course to show them the places that the authors and artists they were studying captured in their work. </p>
<p>“I honestly didn’t really know much about Harlem before,” says architecture major Joud Al Shdaifat ’17. “Now I know Harlem is one of the most creative, eclectic, sacred places that I’ve been to in New York.”</p>
<p>Sade Lythcott, CEO of the National Black Theatre, says, “Students are learning firsthand from institutions that have been on the frontline of making Harlem one of the most important and culturally rich communities in America, and as the institutions, we have gotten a profound opportunity to tell and teach our stories to the next generation of thought leaders.”</p>
<p>The classes drew on numerous themes: art, activism, literature, architecture, religion, and other subjects. Students made architectural renderings for a new building for the National Black Theatre; explored art and social justice during the Harlem Renaissance; created digital storytelling projects in collaboration with the Schomburg Center and the International Center of Photography on the work of playwright and poet Ntozake Shange ’70; participated in a master class with the creator of a new work about James Baldwin; studied the archives of Harlem artist Romare Bearden; and examined their own subjectivities in response to a seminal 2001 exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem.</p>
<p>Students read works by Baldwin, Langston Hughes, <a href="https://barnard.edu/news/archaeology-classic-celebrating-zora-neale-hurston-28">Zora Neale Hurston ’28</a>, and others, and learned how the authors interacted with Harlem: where they lived and how they were influenced by the people and the culture.</p>
<p>“In order to understand Harlem, you have to understand the community and its relationship to this place,” says Campt, who is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.</p>
<p>In her role as chair of the Africana studies department, Campt frequently hosted prominent scholars who teach and speak about Harlem, which prodded her to think about creating a more formal way for students to study the cultural and political legacy in and around Harlem. “I thought we could give back to that community by partnering with the people <em>in</em> that community to teach their history and their legacy, and to teach what is in our front yard.”</p>
<p>Campt reached out to Columbia’s School of the Arts and, with their help, she presented her idea at a meeting of 15 arts and cultural organizations in Harlem. It was a hit. Pat Cruz, who is the executive director of Harlem Stage, recalls telling Campt, “This is the kind of partnership we have always dreamed about having with a university but never did. And we have it with you, and we love that!<strong>” </strong></p>
<p>Many of Harlem’s prominent institutions were founded or are run by African-American women, and they are especially interested in nurturing Barnard students, says Campt, who wanted to “make visible the role of African-American women in Harlem as cultural leaders, sustaining the institutions that make Harlem great.”</p>
<p>Taking classes at these institutions afforded students an opportunity “to appreciate the richness of the area’s history,” says Irina Verona, an adjunct assistant professor who taught an architecture class in conjunction with the National Black Theatre, one of the oldest black theatres in the country. “Harlem has a unique mixture—politics, culture, and religion are intertwined.”</p>
<p>Victoria Lee ’17 says the course on the literature of the Harlem Renaissance prompted her to consider “which narratives and voices are given space in Harlem.” Attending performances at the National Black Theatre showed her how the theatre’s “approach to its performances and its audience diverges from mainstream theatre productions in a refreshing and incredibly thought-provoking way.” Spending time at Harlem’s most renowned institutions, she says, “has changed the way I see my neighborhood.”</p>
<p><em>by Eveline Chao</em></p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 09 May 2016 19:09:36 +0000rdouglas65576 at https://barnard.eduSeeing the Lighthttps://barnard.edu/magazine/fall-2015/seeing-light
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><strong>Closed for construction </strong> in June 2015, the LeFrak Gymnasium, recently renamed LeFrak Center, is scheduled to reopen this December. Transformed into a two-story space, the center will temporarily house a portion of the library, archives, study spaces, the Empirical Reasoning Lab, digital classroom, and two seminar spaces on the first floor; and offices and meeting spaces for the departments of economics, history, political science, and urban studies on the second. Activities that were in the LeFrak gym have been moved to other locations around the campus.</p>
<p>The overall redesign of the gym reflects the desire to provide suitable quarters while maximizing natural light. As an example, the original windows suggested the location of the second floor; the semicircular window top will allow natural light to filter into this second floor. Glass doors on some meeting and conference rooms will also brighten the hallways.</p>
<p>Heidi Blau, lead architect on the center, informally known as the swing-space project, says, “Building for temporary facilities is a different mindset…. There were a lot of parts and pieces that had to be accommodated, and in some ways, the temporary nature of the construction allowed us some latitude in art and color choices,” although the colors shown in the renderings have not been finalized as of this writing. Important questions focused on how the spaces flowed together, and how the spaces impacted the work experiences for library staff, faculty, and students.</p>
<p>Blau also addressed questions of interaction among students. She notes that many of the materials in the library are available digitally today, and student-gathering spaces need to provide enough room to work on projects in a collaborative manner. •</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Topics:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics/new-building" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new building</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics/construction" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">construction</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics/library" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">library</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-66" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">architecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-ledeimage field-type-image field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Lede image:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/barnard_hall_swing_space_-_150921_-_01_opt.jpg" width="1530" height="1148" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mag-article-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Magazine Article Section:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/magazine/article-section/feature" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Feature</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mag-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Magazine Article Subtitle:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The new LeFrak Center will provide temporary homes for the library and several academic departments</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mag-article-share field-type-addthis field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Magazine Article Share:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mag-issue field-type-entityreference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Magazine Issue:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Fall 2015</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-mag-art-gallery field-type-image field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Magazine Article Gallery:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/barnard_hall_swing_space_-_150921_-_01_opt.jpg" width="1530" height="1148" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/barnard_conference_room_150928_opt.jpg" width="1530" height="1148" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/im2_0112_opt.jpg" width="1720" height="1147" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/barnard_corridor_150928_-_sls_opt.jpg" width="1530" height="1148" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/im2_0063_opt.jpg" width="1704" height="1137" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/im2_0045_opt.jpg" width="1714" height="1143" alt="" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/im2_0073_opt.jpg" width="1728" height="1152" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Feature Image:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/indesign/fall_2015/barnard_hall_swing_space_-_150921_-_01_opt.jpg" width="1530" height="1148" /></div></div></div>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:05:50 +0000ut-admin65056 at https://barnard.eduA Visionary Look Toward the Futurehttps://barnard.edu/magazine/fall-2015/visionary-look-toward-future
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><strong>“What does the library </strong> of the 21st century look like?” asked Barnard president Debora Spar at one of a series of strategic planning sessions begun four years ago to determine the College’s needs for future growth and continuation of the highest academic standards. The campus community and visitors will see the answer to Spar’s question by the summer of 2018: a cutting-edge 128,000-square foot teaching and learning center (TLC) that will rise on the site of Lehman Hall. The new complex embraces changes that new technologies and media have brought to higher education and the many ways teaching, learning, and research are conducted with these new learning tools. <em> (Please read Spar’s letter on page 3.) </em></p>
<p>When it opened in April 1960, Lehman Hall was hailed as Barnard’s first major campus addition since 1926. Rising to four stories and including one level below ground, the building devoted three floors and 65,000 square feet to storing 150,000 volumes. Within Lehman, the Wollman Library capably housed Barnard’s growing collection of books and research materials—until the digital age began challenging its limitations. Renovation was considered, and surveys were conducted, but from all reports it was clear that the renovation price tag would be daunting and the result would only satisfy current needs, providing an insufficient nod to Barnard’s projected future. New construction offered the best solution that balanced needs, costs, and ultimate value.</p>
<p>What the new building will encompass evolved from the strategic planning sessions launched by Spar in 2011. At these meetings, additional space emerged as the overriding concern of faculty, administrative staff, and students. Other pressing needs surfaced. Additions to the must-have list: cutting-edge educational technologies; library facilities in tune with how students study today (online and more collaboratively); and interactive spaces for teaching, learning, and collaborative research between students and faculty. Within the TLC will be a state-of-the art library designed to embrace cutting-edge educational technologies and interactive learning spaces in a four-story base topped by an 11-story tower that aligns with the façade of neighboring Altschul Hall.</p>
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<h4>The center will include:</h4>
<ul><li>Five innovative labs—for movement, digital humanities, creativity, multimedia, and empirical reasoning—that will comprise a digital commons</li>
<li>A computational science center established for research-focused students and faculty across disciplines</li>
<li>Technologically up-to-date classrooms flexibly designed for seminars and large-group instruction, plus a variety of study areas for individual and group student use</li>
<li>New homes for the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Athena Center for Leadership Studies, plus conferencing facilities linked to meeting and event spaces in The Diana Center</li>
<li>Departmental offices for economics, history, political science, and urban studies</li>
<li>Accessible outdoor terraces plus an intimate café</li>
</ul><p>Throughout the two-plus years of demolition and construction, campus life and learning will continue uninterrupted. The College’s 20,000 most-circulated books have been transferred to the fourth floor of Columbia’s Butler Library where they can be available to Barnard students, staff, and faculty while the new facility is being built. The remainder of Barnard’s stored books will be inaccessible throughout the construction period, but its archival book collections will be retrievable weekly. In addition, the Columbia library’s 4.6 million books and archives will be available via the university’s online retrieval system.</p>
<p>Facilities are already under construction at various campus sites for programs and activities displaced when Lehman Hall closes. The creation of the two-story LeFrak Center, formerly the LeFrak Gymnasium, will become temporary quarters for the library and several academic departments, and is one of the most innovative designs for the reuse of a space. (See page 21 for construction photos and renderings.)</p>
<h3>Women Take the Lead in Major Campus Construction</h3>
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<p><strong>Three women direct </strong> teams involved with Barnard’s campus construction and renovations: architect Heidi Blau, architect and project manager Meredith Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa, and construction manager Suzanne Castellano. All three have decades of experience managing complex, multifaceted building projects. While each plays a different role, they are tasked with ensuring that every element of the work—from the installation of the HVAC system in LeFrak Center to the placement of digital screens in the TLC—is executed with timeliness, accuracy, and precision.</p>
<p>Before construction begins on the TLC, the College had to create a new space for the people and programs housed in Lehman Hall, which includes the staff of the Wollman Library. Throughout the fall, crews have been busy turning LeFrak Gymnasium into LeFrak Center to house academic departments and a temporary library. Heidi Blau, a partner at FXFOWLE Architects, led the team of architects and designers who conceived this renovation. A strong proponent of a liberal-arts education, Blau is excited to be part of creating the “spaces where people can learn and interact with each other, and all of this interdisciplinary work that’s going on.” A Smith College graduate, Blau says, “The opportunity to work with one of the sister schools is wonderful.” She is also active with initiatives to attract and retain women in architecture, serving on the diversity task force for the New York State chapter of the American Institute of Architects. “Having different ideas put forward just enriches what we do as architects. It’s enriching to the people and it’s enriching to the project.”</p>
<p>Considering different ideas has been essential to the development of the TLC, says architect Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa of SOM, architects of the TLC. As the project manager, she is in charge of listening to the Barnard community’s needs, then communicating them to the architects. “Our mandate was to be a collaborative team player with multiple constituents,” she explains. She finds working with Barnard inspirational. “The TLC has been shaped by many great women who have been integral in thinking about the vision of what the architecture would be. It’s not often that you get to work with so many great women leaders, designers, and educators.” Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa works closely with SOM partner Roger Duffy, the lead designer. “Getting to this design has been iterative and collaborative in ways that are unique,” Duffy says.</p>
<p>Then there are the nuts and bolts—literally—of this major campus construction, overseen by project executive Suzanne Castellano of Turner Construction, the general contractor building both the LeFrak Center and the TLC.</p>
<p>“The architect and the design engineers put together the drawings, then write contracts to buy the work specified in the drawings, along with the engineering and installations,” she explains. “My job is basically to make sure that the boat stays on course and to get us to completion.”</p>
<p>After earning a mechanical engineering degree, Castellano launched her career by working for utility companies. She transitioned to construction management in 1994, and except for a three-year hiatus, has worked for Turner for more than 20 years. While the construction field mostly attracts men, that is changing rapidly, per Castellano. “There are more women being hired,” she says. “You still come across people who you have to prove yourself to, but younger people don’t think twice about working with a woman.”</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Thursday, June 02– Thursday, June 16, 2016</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Louise McCagg ’59 Gallery </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-24" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">festival</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-66" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">architecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Architecture alumni gather to enjoy a reception and view this year’s exhibition, featuring work produced by architecture department alumni. Opening recpetion will be held on Thursday, June 2, 2016 in the Louise McGagg '59 Gallery. </p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Wednesday, May 04–Wednesday May 11, 2016</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Louise McCagg ’59 Gallery &amp; 4th and 5th Floors, The Diana Center </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-24" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">festival</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-66" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">architecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Students enrolled in architecture studio and workshop courses exhibit their work. Guests are welcome. Opening Reception will be held on Wedneday, May 4, 2016 between in 6-7:30 PM in the Louise McCagg '59 Gallery. </p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-66" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">architecture</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-101" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">faculty</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The New York State chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded its 2015 Educator Award to <a href="https://barnard.edu/profiles/karen-fairbanks">Karen Fairbanks, chair of the architecture department and professor of professional practice</a>. The citation recognizes of her "notable contributions and accomplishments in architectural education that have resulted in innovative programs and the creation of new work, contemporary culture, and design." The AIA is the architecture field's leading professional membership organization.</p>
<p>In confering the award, the AIA also notes that Prof. Fairbanks expanded the architecture department's faculty and curriculum to develop two areas of critical importance: an engagement with urbanism and data analysis, and new forms of digital media and communication. She has also implemented new teaching models for combined theory and practice, and introduced numerous new courses into the curriculum. </p>
<p>Prof. Fairbanks has been a member of Barnard's Department of Architecture since 1996, teaching design studios and seminars on architecture and technology. She is also affiliated with Barnard's urban studies program. Prof. Fairbanks is a founding partner in the independent architectural practice, Marble Fairbanks, which specializes in cultural and institutional commissions and the integration of digital technology into design and production. Marble Fairbanks was recently commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to design a speculative architectural wall system for the recent exhibit, <em>Home Delivery</em>. Other recent projects include the <a href="https://barnard.edu/news/search-excellence-designing-new-library">Glen Oaks Branch Library in Queens</a>, the Toni Stabile Student Center for the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and Tenrikyo Mission New York Center Church in Flushing. The firm was selected for the NYC Department of Design and Construction’s Design Excellence Program and have been recognized with numerous international design awards including American Architecture Awards, the Emerging Architect Award, and a Progressive Architecture Award.</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:34:45 +0000abeshkin60986 at https://barnard.eduA Visionary Look Toward the Futurehttps://barnard.edu/news/visionary-look-toward-future
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-66" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">architecture</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-30" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Barnard College</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics/campus" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">campus</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-16" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">technology</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-145" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Computing</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>Learn more about the Teaching and Learning Center at Barnard.edu/TLC and follow @MillieBuilds on Twitter for the latest updates</em></p>
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<p>“What does the library of the 21st century look like?” asked Barnard president Debora Spar at one of a series of strategic planning sessions begun four years ago to determine the College’s needs for future growth and continuation of the highest academic standards.The campus community and visitors will see the answer to Spar’s question by the summer of 2018: a cutting-edge 128,000-square foot teaching and learning center (TLC) that will rise on the site of Lehman Hall. The new complex embraces changes that new technologies and media have brought to higher education and the many ways teaching, learning, and research are conducted with these new learning tools. (See this issue's President's Page.)</p>
<p>Partner and lead designer Roger Duffy, with Meredith Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa, both of the award-winning architectural firm Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill (SOM), led the design and development of the new structure. “We took on this fantastic project for Barnard...because it’s a wonderful institution, a fantastic site, and we feel privileged to be able to work and to collaborate with them on this amazing new contribution to their campus,” says Duffy. “[The TLC is] essentially a very high-tech library and supporting academic space and faculty offices, all commingled and networked together with other buildings on their campus.”</p>
<p>When it opened in April 1960, Lehman Hall was hailed as Barnard’s first major campus addition since 1926. Rising to four stories and including one level below ground, the building devoted three floors and 65,000 square feet to storing 150,000 volumes. Within Lehman, the Wollman Library capably housed Barnard’s growing collection of books and research materials—until the digital age began challenging its limitations. Renovation was considered, and surveys were conducted, but from all reports it was clear that the renovation price tag would be daunting and the result would only satisfy current needs, providing an insufficient nod to Barnard’s projected future. New construction offered the best solution that balanced needs, costs, and ultimate value.</p>
<p>What the new building will encompass evolved from the strategic planning sessions launched by Spar in 2011. At these meetings, additional space emerged as the overriding concern of faculty, administrative staff, and students. Other pressing needs surfaced. Additions to the must-have list: cutting-edge educational technologies; library facilities in tune with how students study today (online and more collaboratively); and interactive spaces for teaching, learning, and collaborative research between students and faculty. Within the TLC will be a state-of-the art library designed to embrace cutting-edge educational technologies and interactive learning spaces in a four-story base topped by an 11-story tower that aligns with the façade of neighboring Altschul Hall.</p>
<hr /><h2>The center will include:</h2>
<p>• <strong>Five innovative labs</strong>—for movement, digital humanities, creativity, multimedia, and empirical reasoning—that will comprise a digital commons</p>
<p>• A <strong>computational science center</strong> established for research-focused students and faculty across disciplines</p>
<p>• <strong>Technologically up-to-date classrooms</strong> flexibly designed for seminars and large-group instruction, plus a variety of study areas for individual and group student use</p>
<p>• New homes for the <strong>Barnard Center for Research on Women</strong> and the <strong>Athena Center for Leadership Studies</strong>, plus conferencing facilities linked to meeting and event spaces in The Diana Center</p>
<p>• Departmental <strong>offices</strong> for economics, history, political science, and urban studies</p>
<p>• Accessible <strong>outdoor terraces</strong> plus an intimate <strong>café</strong></p>
<hr /><p>Throughout the two-plus years of demolition and construction, campus life and learning will continue uninterrupted. The College’s 20,000 most-circulated books have been transferred to the fourth floor of Columbia’s Butler Library where they can be available to Barnard students, staff, and faculty while the new facility is being built.The remainder of Barnard’s stored books will be inaccessible throughout the construction period, but its archival book collections will be retrievable weekly. In addition, the Columbia library’s 4.6 million books and archives will be available via the university’s online retrieval system.</p>
<p>Facilities are already under construction at various campus sites for programs and activities displaced when Lehman Hall closes.The creation of the two-story LeFrak Center, formerly the LeFrak Gymnasium, will become temporary quarters for the library and several academic departments, and is one of the most innovative designs for the reuse of a space.</p>
<h2>Women Take the Lead in Major Campus Construction</h2>
<p>Three women direct teams involved with Barnard’s campus construction and renovations: architect Heidi Blau, architect and project manager Meredith Bostwick- Lorenzo Eiroa, and construction manager Suzanne Castellano. All three have decades of experience managing complex, multifaceted building projects.While each plays a different role, they are tasked with ensuring that every element of the work—from the installation of the HVAC system in LeFrak Center to the placement of digital screens in the TLC—is executed with timeliness, accuracy, and precision. Before construction begins on the TLC, the College had to create a new space for the people and programs housed in Lehman Hall, which includes the staff of the Wollman Library. Throughout the fall, crews have been busy turning LeFrak Gymnasium into LeFrak Center to house academic departments and a temporary library. Heidi Blau, a partner at FXFOWLE Architects, led the team of architects and designers who conceived this renovation. A strong proponent of a liberal-arts education, Blau is excited to be part of creating the “spaces where people can learn and interact with each other, and all of this interdisciplinary work that’s going on.” A Smith College graduate, Blau says, “The opportunity to work with one of the sister schools is wonderful.” She is also active with initiatives to attract and retain women in architecture, serving on the diversity task force for the NewYork State chapter of the American Institute of Architects. “Having different ideas put forward just enriches what we do as architects. It’s enriching to the people and it’s enriching to the project.”</p>
<p>Considering different ideas has been essential to the development of the TLC, says architect Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa of SOM, architects of the TLC. As the project manager, she is in charge of listening to the Barnard community’s needs, then communicating them to the architects. “Our mandate was to be a collaborative team player with multiple constituents,” she explains. She finds working with Barnard inspirational. “The TLC has been shaped by many great women who have been integral in thinking about the vision of what the architecture would be. It’s not often that you get to work with so many great women leaders, designers, and educators.” Bostwick- Lorenzo Eiroa works closely with SOM partner Roger Duffy, the lead designer. “Getting to this design has been iterative and collaborative in ways that are unique,” Duffy says.</p>
<p>Then there are the nuts and bolts—literally—of this major campus construction, overseen by project executive Suzanne Castellano of Turner Construction, the general contractor building both the LeFrak Center and the TLC.</p>
<p>“The architect and the design engineers put together the drawings, then write contracts to buy the work specified in the drawings, along with the engineering and installations,” she explains. “My job is basically to make sure that the boat stays on course and to get us to completion.”</p>
<p>After earning a mechanical engineering degree, Castellano launched her career by working for utility companies. She transitioned to construction management in 1994, and except for a three-year hiatus, has worked for Turner for more than 20 years. While the construction field mostly attracts men, that is changing rapidly, per Castellano. “There are more women being hired,” she says. “You still come across people who you have to prove yourself to, but younger people don’t think twice about working with a woman.”</p>
<p><em>—by Mervyn Kaufman, Abigail Beshkin, and Annette Kahn</em></p>
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